The Coast Salish Knitters and the Cowichan Sweater: An Event of National Historic Significance
Long before the arrival of Europeans, the Coast Salish First Nations of southwestern Vancouver Island turned mountain goat wool, dog hair and plant fibres into woven textiles of great value among the peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Around 1860, Coast Salish women in the Cowichan Valley were introd...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/21406 2023-05-15T16:17:01+02:00 The Coast Salish Knitters and the Cowichan Sweater: An Event of National Historic Significance Stopp, Marianne P. 2012-01-01 text/html application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/21406 eng eng Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/21406/24805 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/21406/24806 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/21406 Copyright (c) 2015 Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle Material Culture Review; Volume 76 Fall/Automne 2012 Revue de la culture matérielle; Volume 76 Fall/Automne 2012 1927-9264 1718-1259 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2012 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:50:20Z Long before the arrival of Europeans, the Coast Salish First Nations of southwestern Vancouver Island turned mountain goat wool, dog hair and plant fibres into woven textiles of great value among the peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Around 1860, Coast Salish women in the Cowichan Valley were introduced to European two-needle and multiple-needle knitting and began to produce what came to be known as the Cowichan sweater. Preparation combined ancient fibre processing and spinning techniques with European knitting to produce a high-quality, iconic garment. Profit margins for the knitters were minimal, but knitting provided an economic foothold in a new and challenging market-based economy. In 2011, the Government of Canada designated the Coast Salish Knitters and the Cowichan Sweater as an event of national historic significance on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Bien avant l’arrivée des Européens, la Première nation des Salish de la côte, au sud-ouest de l’île Victoria, fabriquait des tissages à base de laine de chèvre des montagnes, de poil de chien et de fibres végétales, qui avaient une grande valeur auprès des peuples de la côte nord-ouest, en bordure du Pacifique. Vers 1860, les femmes salish de la côte de la vallée de la Cowichan entrèrent en contact avec la technique européenne du tricot, à deux aiguilles ou à multiples aiguilles, et elles commencèrent à fabriquer ce qui a fini par prendre le nom de « chandail Cowichan ». Elles combinèrent l’ancienne technique de production et de filage de fibres au tricot européen pour produire un vêtement emblématique de grande qualité. La marge de profit des tricoteuses était faible, mais le tricot leur permit de prendre pied dans la nouvelle et exigeante économie de marché. En 2011, le gouvernement canadien, par l’intermédiaire de la Commission des lieux et monuments historique du Canada, a qualifié « les tricoteuses salish de la côte et le chandail Cowichan » d’évènement historique national. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals Canada Pacific |
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Long before the arrival of Europeans, the Coast Salish First Nations of southwestern Vancouver Island turned mountain goat wool, dog hair and plant fibres into woven textiles of great value among the peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Around 1860, Coast Salish women in the Cowichan Valley were introduced to European two-needle and multiple-needle knitting and began to produce what came to be known as the Cowichan sweater. Preparation combined ancient fibre processing and spinning techniques with European knitting to produce a high-quality, iconic garment. Profit margins for the knitters were minimal, but knitting provided an economic foothold in a new and challenging market-based economy. In 2011, the Government of Canada designated the Coast Salish Knitters and the Cowichan Sweater as an event of national historic significance on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Bien avant l’arrivée des Européens, la Première nation des Salish de la côte, au sud-ouest de l’île Victoria, fabriquait des tissages à base de laine de chèvre des montagnes, de poil de chien et de fibres végétales, qui avaient une grande valeur auprès des peuples de la côte nord-ouest, en bordure du Pacifique. Vers 1860, les femmes salish de la côte de la vallée de la Cowichan entrèrent en contact avec la technique européenne du tricot, à deux aiguilles ou à multiples aiguilles, et elles commencèrent à fabriquer ce qui a fini par prendre le nom de « chandail Cowichan ». Elles combinèrent l’ancienne technique de production et de filage de fibres au tricot européen pour produire un vêtement emblématique de grande qualité. La marge de profit des tricoteuses était faible, mais le tricot leur permit de prendre pied dans la nouvelle et exigeante économie de marché. En 2011, le gouvernement canadien, par l’intermédiaire de la Commission des lieux et monuments historique du Canada, a qualifié « les tricoteuses salish de la côte et le chandail Cowichan » d’évènement historique national. |
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